Tōru Furusawa (古澤 徹, Furusawa Tōru; born August 3, 1962), known professionally as Tōru Furusawa (古澤 融, Furusawa Tōru), is a Japanese voice actor, stage actor, and theater director of the Rlung Fu-Run- theater company affiliated with Low Notes.
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Biography
Born in a Tokyo Electric Power Company company housing in Iwagami-machi, Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, he resided there until the second year of junior high school, though some sources claim Kumamoto Prefecture as his birthplace.
He graduated from Maebashi City Iwagami Elementary School, Maebashi City Daisan Junior High School, Gunma Prefectural Shibukawa High School, and the Department of Political Science in the School of Political Science and Economics at Meiji University.
He got into acting in high school when the head of the drama club scouted him.
After attending the 11th class of the Seinenza Theater Institute and the En Theater Research Institute, he joined the Gekidan Nakama.
Back then, he struggled to get by. With nothing but rehearsals and performances, he didn't even have time for a part-time job, so he snuck into a subcontracting company working for Shimizu Corporation, where actors from the Seinenza Theater Company would routinely go to do part-time work. However, at the site, he fell from the scaffolding, tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and suffered a meniscus tear. At that time, remembering that his close friend Tomoyuki Dan had said, "Lately I started a well-paying part-time job as a voice actor," he cried to Dan, who then introduced him to Kazuya Tatekabe. Tatekabe watched Furusawa's performance at The Suzunari Theatre and judged, "He seems capable enough of acting, so I suppose it's fine." Furusawa became Tatekabe's apprentice on the spot and began his career as a voice actor.
In 1994, Furusawa made his voice acting debut The Brave Police J-Decker as the voice of Deckerd. Afterwards, he was previously affiliated with Production Baobab, Kenyu Office, Bell Production, and Office Kaifu.
Starting April 2021, he changed the kanji spelling of his stage name from "Tōru Furusawa" (古澤徹), like his birth name, to "Tōru Furusawa" (古澤融). He changed his stage name after consulting his wife, deciding to "give himself a name" in order to commemorate overcoming stage fright and that the name was chosen with 'Yū' from yūwa and Minamoto no Tōru in mind.
Filmography
Television animation
Anime Ganbare Goemon (Mr. Protein)
Cardcaptor Sakura (Yoshiyuki Terada (first season))
Fushigi Yûgi (Nakago)
Kurau Phantom Memory (Inspector Wong)
Initial D (Natsuki Mogi's "papa")
Magical Project S (Andou Toyokawa)
Trigun (Millions Knives)
Bleach (Zabimaru & Koga Gau)
Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars (Ingram Prisken)
Flame of Recca (Noroi)
Kamichu! (Tyler)
Lucky Star (Tadao Hiiragi)
Cyborg Kuro-chan (Dr. Go)
Brave Police J-Decker (Deckerd/J-Decker/Fire J-Decker)
Naruto (Yurinojō)
Naruto Shippuden (Fukai) (episode 282 and 283)
Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow (Michy)
Baccano! (Nicholas Wayne)
The Book of Bantorra (Fotona)
Ef: A Tale of Memories (Akira Amamiya)
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (Kawamata)
Theatrical animation
Cardcaptor Sakura (Yoshiyuki Terada)
X/1999 (Seishirō Sakurazuka)
Perfect Blue (Yatazaki)
Original video animation (OVA)
Hunter × Hunter: G.I. Final (Razor)
Drama CD
Abunai series 2: Abunai Summer Vacation
Abunai series 4: Abunai Campus Love (Yoshitaka Izumi)
Kiken ga Ippai (Kondou)
Mizuki-sensei Ki wo Tsukete (Yukimasa Haneda)
Otawamure wo Prince (Kouki Matsuo)
Shiritsu Takizawa Koukou Seitokai (Satoshi Oozawa)
Suit and Ribbon Tie (Ryuuichi Kijima)
Weiss Kreuz (Ayame)
Dubbing
8mm 2 (David Huxley (Johnathon Schaech))
24 (Wayne Palmer (D. B. Woodside))
2012: Supernova (Kelvin (Brian Krause))
Aliens (Carter Burke (Paul Reiser))
Anna Magdalena (Editor (Leslie Cheung))
August Rush (Counselor Richard Jeffries (Terrence Howard))
Bad Day (Harry McCann)
The Basketball Diaries (Mickey (Mark Wahlberg))
Basquiat (Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeffrey Wright))
The Bourne Supremacy (Tom Cronin (Tom Gallop))
Brassed Off (Andy Barrow (Ewan McGregor))
The Brave One (Detective Sean Mercer (Terrence Howard))
Broken Arrow (Kelly (Howie Long))
Carrington (Gerald Brenan (Samuel West))
Deadly Heroes (Brad Cartowski (Michael Paré))
Enemy of the State (Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith))
Extreme Ops (Jeffrey (Rupert Graves))
The Fabulous Baker Boys (Lloyd (Xander Berkeley))
Feast of Love (David Watson (Billy Burke))
Fire Down Below (Earl Kellogg (Stephen Lang))
Video games
Natsuki Crisis Battle (Endo)
Guilty Gear 2: Overture (Izuna)
Infinite Undiscovery (Eugene)
Super Robot Wars series (Ingram Prisken)
Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (Prince Phillip)
Mega Man Zero 4 (Tech Kraken)
